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"My job is to give my team a chance to win."
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"I came into the game when I broke into the major leagues, the minimum salary was seven thousand dollars, and I'd have to go home in the wintertime and get a job."
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"I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career."
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"My job is to give my team a chance to win."
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"And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher."
Career
"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."
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"Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros."
American
"What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?"
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"And when I went to Houston, they had a conditioning coach by the name of Gene Coleman. And that was the first time I had gone to an organization that had a program with a weight room and designed specifically for pitchers."
Time
"Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly."
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"When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."
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"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened."
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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."
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"I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game."
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"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."
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"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will."
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"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."
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